iTWire: Microsoft Says Open Office.org 10 Years Behind

“As general manager, business strategy, for the Information
Worker Group at Microsoft Corporation, Alan Yates develops and
guides new business initiatives for the Office products group at
Redmond. While we await the release of Microsoft Office 2007,
promised to hit our shelves before the end of 2006, Yates dismisses
open source rival Open Office.org 2.0 as being 10 years out of
date.

“According to Yates, there are very good reasons for people to
pay $500 or more for even the soon to be superseded version of
Microsoft Office as opposed to paying nothing for a copy of Open
Office 2.0, which the Linux crowd will tell you does the job just
as well…”

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